Tropical Storm Kujira formed west of Wake Island on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Kujira was located at latitude 21.1\u00b0N and longitude 158.5\u00b0E which put it about 515 miles (830 km) west of Wake Island.\u00a0 Kujira was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 40 m.p.h. (65 km\/h) and there were wind gusts to 50 m.p.h. (80 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum sustained wind speed was 1002 mb.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kujira was moving around the eastern side of an upper level low.\u00a0 The upper low was causing vertical wind shear which was causing the distribution of thunderstorms to be asymmetrical.\u00a0 There were few thunderstorms near the center of the circulation.\u00a0 Many of the thunderstorms were occurring in bands east and south of the center of Kujira.\u00a0 Bands in the western half of the circulation consisted primarily of showers and lower clouds. Winds to tropical storm force extended out 200 miles (320 km) in the southeastern quadrant of Tropical Storm Kujjira.\u00a0 The winds in the other parts of the circulation were blowing at less than tropical storm force.<\/p>\n
Tropical Storm Kujira will move through an environment favorable for intensification after it moves away from the upper level low.\u00a0 When Kujira moves away from the upper low, the vertical wind shear will decrease.\u00a0 Tropical Storm Kujira will move over water where the Sea Surface Temperature is near 28\u00b0C.\u00a0 Kujira will intensify when the wind shear decreases.\u00a0\u00a0 It could strengthen into a typhoon in two or three days.<\/p>\n
The upper level low will pull Tropical Storm Kujira toward the northwest during the next 12 to 24 hours.\u00a0 Then Kujira will move around the western end of a subtropical high pressure system over the Western North Pacific Ocean.\u00a0 The high will steer Tropical Storm Kujira toward the north for 24 to 36 hours.\u00a0 Kujira will eventually be steered toward the northeast when it reaches the westerly winds in the middle latitudes.\u00a0 On its anticipated track Tropical Storm Kujira will pass well to the east of Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Tropical Storm Kujira formed west of Wake Island on Saturday.\u00a0 At 11:00 p.m. EDT on Saturday the center of Tropical Storm Kujira was located at latitude 21.1\u00b0N and longitude 158.5\u00b0E which put it about 515 miles (830 km) west of Wake Island.\u00a0 Kujira was moving toward the northwest at 9 m.p.h. (15 km\/h).\u00a0 The maximum […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[501,44,2246,2245,80,502],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10472"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10473,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10472\/revisions\/10473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jayhobgood.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}